Easy Media Creator Performance

[jerry419]

I have been a users of Easy Creator 7.5, 8, 9, and now 10. I am running a Vista home brew with 2.4ghz quad processor (1066 FSB), 2gb ram, all SATA hard drives (7200rpm), all SATA DVD Burners. Version 10 performance is unacceptable. When I finish posting this, I plan to uninstall and try V9. I will keep watching, here, for solutions to this problem. This sort of situation is very typical of Roxio (no)support.

[Beerman]

Parts of Vista run a tad bit slower for me while other programs run faster. I have done some very simple tests on the same machine (dual boot) using the same file and found Vista faster with v9 in almost every category. I have not tried v10 but it appears to me to be the same. I'm not sure if they've changed or tweaked the encoders in MyDVD/Videowave but I think they might be a tad bit slower but also a tad bit improved in quality.

I haven't done a slide show with the number of images you have in a while and not in v10 but have done a few with just under 100 and what I got was not slow and I think 30 minutes is way out of line. Something does seem to be wrong to me.

[james_hardin]

I have been a users of Easy Creator 7.5, 8, 9, and now 10. I am running a Vista home brew with 2.4ghz quad processor (1066 FSB), 2gb ram, all SATA hard drives (7200rpm), all SATA DVD Burners. Version 10 performance is unacceptable. When I finish posting this, I plan to uninstall and try V9. I will keep watching, here, for solutions to this problem. This sort of situation is very typical of Roxio (no)support.

Must be your setup…

 

Everyone else has commented that EMC 10 is as fast or faster than V9…

 

List your Video Card and the settings you are using. (assumes you are referring to video work as you never bothered to say)

[sknis]

Must be your setup…

 

Everyone else has commented that EMC 10 is as fast or faster than V9…

 

List your Video Card and the settings you are using. (assumes you are referring to video work as you never bothered to say)

The poster also failed to tell us what was unacceptable -- quality or speed or applications or interface or installation or ...? Also he mentions support but doesn't even tell us what question he did/did not get an answer to.

[lynn98109]

Since he's got Vista, hope he updates EMC 9 to EMC 9.1 before doing too much else ...

 

Lynn

[telhack]

I have to agree on the performance issue with relation to speed compared to 5, 6, and 7.5. I find this program to be rather slow. Also it doesn't seem as friendly to use. I hate reading, I like to fire up the app and play. If I got to read the book its either too difficult or something special.

For example I miss being able to tag the first jpeg in a slideshow, instead I have to drag it to the first spot. Not a big deal since the first slide is would be the first one, but it sure would speed things up instead of dragging in a large production. Maybe that can be added in an update. You tag the first one and the app moves it by itself.

Was having trouble with dragging until I noticed that I have to watch the icon!!!! Was not looking for that. It goes from a Circle with a bar in it to a small box when it is ok to drop. You have to watch for that. Not sure why though. It isn't like you can drop a image inside another one so what's the point except to cause trouble for someone who isn't paying attention! :-)

 

I am also running a homebrew with Vista Business, an Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.3, dual hard drives at RAID1 300Gb, dual BFG7900 GTO 512mb SLI PCIexpress cards(however, they are not sharing the load - NVIDIA forgets to mention in the literature before you buy it that you cannot run 2 SLI boards and have dual displays how convenient- should have done more homework!), and 4 GB DDR2 3200 memory. The applications withing the initial software window load slowly especially Videowave.

 

At the moment I am trying to create a slideshow using Photo slideshow and I am importing approx 230 images at one time. It has been 30 minutes now and I have yet to see anything happening. I don't have control of the program since it is apparently trying to bring in the jpegs. It has a small status box that came up and said something like "please wait importing or copying picture #" but it did not stay there long and dissappeared. It never came back. This has happened on several slideshow creations.

A status indicator would be great and perhaps with an estimated time to import the images would be helpful.

 

Does anyone know the approx import time to complete on 1 picture? Knowing this I can then calculate the amount of time to expect the task to complete.

I read on another post that the MyDVD slideshow performs differently or at least a slideshow created in MyDVD cannot be edited from within Videowave. I wish I knew this before making the slideshow. I had to recreate it again to edit the pan & tilt cutting off people's heads with some of the settings. Maybe it shouldn't be called slideshow since at least I assumed I could edit a slideshow from anywhere in the program since the program is made by the same company.

I await any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong, etc.